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| Ed will read from Saint John of the Five Boroughs on Tuesday, October 20, 7PM at Volume II Bookstore in Blacksburg. Other readings scheduled this fall include Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn (with Colum McCann, Nov 19), George Mason's Fall for the Book (Tues, Sept 22nd), The Louisiana Book Festival (October 17), and The Miami Book Fair (November 14) |
Ed Falco's latest novel, Saint John of the Five Boroughs, is out this fall from Unbridled Books. Ed has directed the MFA Program since 2007.
“Falco’s latest examines the underbelly of love and relationships, but he also populates the story with a cast of diverse and unusual characters. As the plot twists and turns, readers don’t know what to expect next…” ––Booklist If you're up for a good, suspenseful read that'll keep you turning pages, Falco delivers. ––New Pages |
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Fred D'Aguiar's most recent collection of poems is out this summer in England, from Carcanet. |
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Fred, Gloria D. Smith Professor of Africana Studies, will be teaching the poetry workshop this fall.
Continental Shelf traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. It moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section which gives its title to the book. Fred D'Aguiar celebrates . . . . how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death. Love, above all, is the mainstay. |
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Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor, is the author of the novels Lady Moses and The Hotel Alleluia, two poetry collections, and numerous poems, stories, and essays published in journals and anthologies. The Virginia Press Women recently name Lucinda 2009 Newsmaker of the Year.
Lucinda, a previous Director of the MFA Program and Chair of the English Department , will teach our graduate fiction workhop in the spring.
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Erika's second collection of poems, Ideal Cities, has been selected by Paul Guest as a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series
Ideal Cities will be published in 2010 by HarperCollins. Erika also has poems published recently in Fishhouse: An Anthology of Emerging Poets, Indiana Review, The Southern Review, Washington Square, Barn Owl Review, 32 Poems, and Blackbird; and she has poems forthcoming in Southeast Review, Anti-, Subtropics, and Gargoyle. Erika's essay "On Rita Dove," is forthcoming in the 2010 edition of Best African American Essays, and her poem, "Sllnky Dirt With Development Hat," will be included in the anthology Starting Today: Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010).
Erika teaches in the MFA Program.
Kate Kimball (2010 MFA) won honorable mention from the Summer Literary Seminars for her short story "Supposed to Be Glad." Another story, "Simple, Ugly Things," was published recently in Weber: The Contemporary West.
Rob Talbert (2011 MFA) has two poems published recently in The American Poetry Review
Jeff Mann Jeff has a new collection of essays, "Binding the God," coming out later this year from Lethe Press, and he has work forthcoming in Arts and Letters, Willow Springs,Ganymede, Best Gay Stories 2009,Van Gogh's Ear, Prairie Schooner, and Icarus. He received the John Preston Short Fiction Award in 2009 for his short story "Kidnapping Chris." Jeff teaches in the MFA Program. |
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Matthew Vollmer
Matthew's first collection of stories, Future Missionaries of America, was published recently to rave reviews, including The New York Times: "Expertly structured and utterly convincing, these stories represent the arrival of a strong new voice." Library Journal, in a starred review, wrote: ""Vollmer's impressive first book is a rare and gratifying achievement: a superbly written collection of short stories."
Matthew teaches in our creative writing program.
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Kim Addonizio selected Megan's poem "Reasons Why the Birthday Party Was Apocalyptic" for the 2009 Edition Best New Poets. Weston Cutter (MFA 2009) had a poem in the 2008 Edition. |
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L. Lamar Wilson, a 2008 finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award, and 2009 finalist for Knockout's International Reginald Sheperd Memorial Poetry Prize, has poetry published or forthcoming in Rattle, Reverie and Crab Orchard Review. He published an essay on best-selling author E. Lynn Harris in The Washington Post, and read it at a National Black Arts Festival tribute in Atlanta. His review of Crystal Williams' Troubled Tongues, winner of the 2008 Naomi Madgett Poetry Award, is forthcoming in Post No Ills. Two of La L. Lamar Wilson (MFA 2010) Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths |
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